Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
The way I see it, when you create something you are emulating THE CREATOR. God has many titles in the many faith traditions, and one of them is “the Fashioner.” There used to be nothing and then there was the universe.
Rainn Wilson • The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room
But ideas are works of bricolage; they’re built out of that detritus.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
We are required to believe in something that doesn’t exist in order to allow it to come into being.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
To create is to bring something into existence that wasn’t there before.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
zero to one work is soul exposing.
you’re making something out of nothing, then dragging it into reality by force of will while everything around you & sometimes even yourself telling you it’s dumb, or pointless.
making things
Ben Cuan • 9 cards
pure meaning did not exist, never did and never would. Meaning is always constructed after the fact.
Percival Everett • Dr. No: A Novel
Why create?
Emma • 3 cards
progressively denser and colder kingdoms emerging out of that initial fiery explosion of the divine will-to-form that sets the whole thing in motion.